Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-08-20

added reporter Is ten thousand fifty thou
sand, hundred thousand immortal souls
added to the auditory. The time will come
when all the village, town and city newspapers
will reproduce the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and
sermons preached on the Sabbath will rever-
berate all around the world, and, some by
type and some by voice, all nations will be
evangelical.
The practical bearing of this is upon those
who are engaged in Christian work, not only
upon theological students and young minis
tiers, but upon all who preach the Gospel, and
all who exhort in meeting, and that is all of
you if you are doing your duty. Do you ex-
hort in prayer meetings Be short and be
spirited. Do you teach in Bible class
Though you have to study every night be in
teresting Do you accost people ON the sub
ject of religion in their homes or in public
places! Study adroitness and use common
sense. The most graceful and most beautiful
thing on earth is the religion of Jesus Christ,
and if you awkwardly present it, it is defa-
nation. We must do our work rapidly, and
we must do it effectively. Soon our time for
work will be gone.
A dying Christian took out his watch anU
gave it to a friend and said: Take that
watch, L have no more use for it; time is
ended for me and eternity begins" Oh, my
friends, when our watch has licked away for
us the last moment, and our clock has struck
lOf US buc lttoO HDui, may IL Dt lOuIlu we
our work well, that we did it in the very best
way, and whether we preached the Gospel in
pulpits or taught Sabbath classes or adj
ministered to the sick as physicians, or
bargained as merchants, or plead the
law as attorneys or were busy az
artisans, or as hrlsbandmen, or as mechan-
les, or werelike Martha called to give a meal
10 hungry Christ, or like Hannah to make
coat for a prophet, or like Deborah to rouse
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conflict we did our work in such way that
It will stand the test of the Judgment And
In the long procession of the redeemed that
march around the throne may it be found
there are many there brought to God through
our fundamentally and in whose rescue we
are exultant.
But, 0 We iinsaved, wait not for that re-
tgious discourse of the future. 1t may come
after your obseqlies. 1t may come after the
stone cutter has chiseled your name on the
slab, fifty years before. Do not wait for a
great steamer of the Cunard or White Star
line to take you off the wreck, but hail the
first craft, with however low mast and
however small hulk, and however poor
rudder and however weak captain. Better
disabled schooner that comes up in time
Than d fuil-rigged brig that comes UP after
you have sunken.
Instead of waiting for that religious dis
course of the future-it may be forty, fifty
years off-take this plain invitation of man
who, to have given you spiritual eyesight,
would be glad to be called the spittle by the
hand OF Christ put on the eyes of blind
man, and who would consider the highest
compliment of this service, if at the close five
hundred men should start from these doors,
laying: "Whether he be sinner or no, |
know not This one thing / know, whereas
was blind now / see.n
Swifter than shadows over the plain,
uuicker than birds in their autumnal flight,
6astier than eagles to their prey, HE you to
= sympathetic Christ. The orchestras OF
heaven have already strung their instruments
10 celebrate your rescue.
sand many were the voices around the throne:
Rejoice. for the Lord brings back his own"